{"id":114,"date":"2018-10-28T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-10-28T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T22:41:41","slug":"response-to-ryans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/10\/28\/response-to-ryans\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Ryan&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"71wlg5BnM2\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/10\/25\/unit-5-learning-activity-1-team-leadership\/\">Unit 5 Learning Activity 1  &#8211; Team Leadership<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Unit 5 Learning Activity 1  &#8211; Team Leadership&#8221; &#8212; Ryan Morrow\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/10\/25\/unit-5-learning-activity-1-team-leadership\/embed\/#?secret=LMWFPs4qFR#?secret=71wlg5BnM2\" data-secret=\"71wlg5BnM2\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I found three portions of your blog to be particularly interesting and well presented. First, your summary and analysis of Larson &amp; Fasto\u2019s outline of characteristics of team effectiveness was succinct and accurate (cited in Northouse, 2019, pg. 368-372). Secondly, your description of your workplace situation, leading a group in a work context you identified, the necessity of strategy, the need for goals, tasking each team member with assignments and the need to establish the correct strategy to address questions raised by team members, as all being necessary elements of team leadership. The third component of your posting, which interested me the most, was your question: \u201cHow can a team concept be applied to staff members who have a common overarching goal of educating children and carrying out the vision of the school but very different day to day objectives?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I feel that to answer this question, you have to ask yourself a separate, fundamental question, \u201cDo all staff members employ the same methodology of obtaining the goal of educating children and do they all <em>define<\/em> the goal the same way?\u201d In my opinion, I feel that some of your team members might have different ideas about how to <em>achieve<\/em> the goal and even further different ideas about <em>what<\/em> the goal actually is. The basis of the two aspects of my question are based off John Dewey, who has been heralded as the \u201cchief prophet of progressive education\u201d (Sasse, 2017, pg. 24). For Dewey, \u201cschool would become the everything \u2013 the literal centre of the world\u201d (Sasse, 2017, pg. 26). His dream was that instead of \u201csupporting parents \u2026 [school] would become instead a substitute for parents\u201d (Sasse, 2017, pg. 26).<\/p>\n<p>I would suggest that some of your team members have biases, whether conscious or subconscious, about how to best educate students or have different goals in mind for their students. To better understand your team members\u2019 potentially contrasting views about the process or goals, I might suggest that you consider asking gentle questions in a one-on-one context, about their own educational philosophies and belief. Hopefully, from these conversations, you might yield insight that will lead to more predictable and rewarding outcomes from your team\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northouse, P. G. (2019).<em> Leadership: Theory and Practice<\/em>. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n<p>Sasse, B. (2017). <em>The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis-and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance<\/em>. New York, NY: St. Martin\u2019s Griffin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit 5 Learning Activity 1 &#8211; Team Leadership I found three portions of your blog to be particularly interesting and well presented. First, your summary and analysis of Larson &amp; Fasto\u2019s outline of characteristics of team effectiveness was succinct and accurate (cited in Northouse, 2019, pg. 368-372). Secondly, your description of your workplace situation, leading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/10\/28\/response-to-ryans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Ryan&#8217;s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}